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Kash Patel Is Polygraphing FBI Staff to Find Out if They’re Being Mean About Him
(www.thedailybeast.com)
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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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So wait... It's not Tiny Dick Syndrome?
Enforcing polygraph testing will invariably make people less trusting of you. There needs to specific reasons that target specific people.
As if anyone trusted Patel anyway.
What a dork-ass loser.
literally a 30 rock episode
I've never seen such a clear-cut case of fucking crazy eyes in a "man:"
That's drug induced and you cannot convince me it isn't.
What a bitch.
should polygraph about his crazy eyes.
And you thought J. Edgar Hoover was paranoid.
Is he short? Seems like a short kinda guy
Haha body shaming much funny
5’9”, but I can see that Short Height Indicator Type all over him, some people call it being SHITty
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Cops and pseudoscience go together like chocolate and peanut butter.
For more examples, see "bite mark analysis," "911 call analysis," "blood spatter analysis," roadside drug testing with known false-positives, and even fingerprints (once the gold standard) have up to a 20% error rate.
And that's not even getting into how their methodology is exactly backwards: they have a claim that they set out to prove, but do no work to disprove what they already believe.
but do no work to disprove what they already believe.
But that's the LAWYERS job /s
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Polygraph measures nervousness, not lies.
So innocent people fail them. And guilty people pass them.
All this does is make remaing people hate him
People who use lie detectors as a machine they think can detect lies are stupid.
The real purpose of the lie detector is to trick the suspect into thinking it can detect lies, to the point where they confess.
Ancient trick. The voodoo magic chicken. "This chicken can tell all lies from truth, and it says you are lying." Who doesn't believe in voodoo magic? So the thief, knowing the jig is up, confesses.
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Is polygraph test reliable ? Doesn't it fall under pseudoscience ?
It is not reliable at all, and yes, it is widely considered to be psuedoscience. Yes, this is a batshit insane scenario
Yes, morons still believe in it, yes, he is a moron.
That and just looking for an excuse.
You can even train to beat them, so it’s definitely not a reliable method.
And, I would assume, if anyone had done that training it would be FBI agents.
Lol right? This seems more like a "can you beat a polygraph test" test, than a loyalty test
It's more of an anxiety-detector. It has no basis in fact.
It measures things accurately but this has absolutely nothing to do with identifying if someone is telling the truth or not.
Real leaders don't need to be paranoid about what their underlings think about them. Fascism is more fragile than it appears.
“[Their] need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”
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MAGA: The real snowflakes
The “original” snowflakes. “I can’t drink from the same water fountain as a colored person!” Type of people.
Wouldn't FBI agents be able to pass a "lie detector" test? Has anyone told Kash they aren't actual lie detectors?
Polygraphs have always been close to useless even for normal people. Anyone being interrogated isnyoing to be nervous and likely set them off.
However, you have to be slighlty, remotely intelligent to understand that nuance. And that is not an affliction any Trump cabinet appointee has.
Polygraphs provide authoritarians the excuse to get rid of people.
The same way that scientology uses auditing. The point is to instil fear and doubt into whomever you're measuring so that you can manipulate them.
So, they are extremely useful.
Good thing polygraphs are junk science that doesn't work literally at all.
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Damn dude that's some serious trump energy
Isn't the FBI trained to beat polygraphs though?
Only in as much as they know it’s bunk that only works if the participant believes it does.
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